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Space Coast .Net Meeting – June 16, 2009 John Papa

Blog Author — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:00:00 GMT

John Papa - Ado.Net Data Services

6/17/2009 6:30:00 PM

6/17/2009 8:00:00 PM

About

John Papa is a Microsoft C# MVP, INETA speaker, member of the WPF and Silverlight Insiders, consultant, speaker, author, and trainer for ASPSOFT who specializes in professional application development with Microsoft technologies including Silverlight, WPF, C#, .NET and SQL Server. John has written over 70 articles and authored 9 books including his latest book Data Driven Services with Silverlight 2 by O’Reilly Media. John is currently working on a follow up to his Silverlight book, with a working title of Silverlight for Business.

He can often be found speaking at industry conferences such as MIX, VSLive and DevConnections, speaking at user groups around the country, and viewed on MSDN Web Casts. John also spearheaded the 1^st annual Silverlight MIXer, a gathering of some of the most influential members of the Silverlight community for a great night a MIX09. You can always find John at johnpapa.net.

John Papa will be showing Astoria using Silverlight 3 beta as the client.

ADO.NET Data Services (codenamed Astoria) exposes entity models through RESTful services. It can dramatically simplify the code required to expose business objects through web services and reduce a tremendous amount of code. This session will show how to expose entity models using ADO.NET Data Services, how to consume and save data, and how to debug the communications using various tools. When the technology does not quite do what you need out of the box, it also allows for customizations to create custom service operations, intercept queries, and enforce permissions. Attendees will walk away with an understanding of the capabilities of ADO.NET Data Services, how to use them with Silverlight, and when and where it is ideal to use in an application architecture and when there are better options.

Street: 8045 N. Wickham Road
City: melbourne
Country: USA
State: Florida

Space Coast .Net Winter 09 Tiki Hut Tour

Ken Tucker — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:47:20 GMT

MSDN Tiki Hut Roadshow

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 6:30 PM - Wednesday, February 18, 2009 9:30 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Welcome Time: 6:00 PM
Space Coast Credit Union Corporate Headquarters

8045 N. Wickham Road
Melbourne Florida 32940
United States

Session 1 – jQuery with ASP.NET - JQuery is an open source JavaScript library that has a passionate following among Ajax developers. Microsoft is integrating the open source JQuery library into both the ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC frameworks and providing full product support. Learn how you can take advantage of JQuery to build richly interactive client-side Ajax applications when developing either ASP.NET Web Forms or ASP.NET MVC applications. Also see how JQuery works in combination with ASP.NET AJAX to provide the best framework for building Ajax applications.

Session 2 – Data Services - OnPremise and Off - In the near future, applications will be developed using a combination of custom application code and online building block services, including data-centric services. In this session we discuss advancements in the Microsoft development platform and online service interfaces to enable seamless interaction with data services both on-premises (e.g., ADO.NET Data Services Framework over on-premises SQL Server) and in the cloud (e.g., SQL Server Data Services). Learn how you can leverage existing know-how related to LINQ (Language Integrated Query), data access APIs, data-binding, and more when building applications using online data.

Session 3 – Architecting for the Cloud using Windows Azure - This session provides a tour of the Windows Azure cloud computing platform, an overview of its various components, and explains how these fit together to provide best-of-cloud experiences. We will explore the architecture that links many of the Microsoft .NET services and lets ISVs and businesses deliver compelling solutions. Learn how to compose these services with SQL Data Services to create applications in the cloud and connect them with on-premise systems. We will also examine the next generation of messaging, data, access control, and directory services, and how they fit together to provide a seamless integration into the cloud.

Speaker’s Bios:
Joe Healy ( http://www.devfish.net ) is the Developer Evangelist for Microsoft Gulf States Accounts, based out of Tampa Florida. Joe’s geographical responsibility is to provide ‘developer care’ for the state of Florida. Joe serves a multitude of clients, from corporate accounts to broad reach events and User Groups. He lectures on various development and architectural topics focused around the .Net Frameworks, Visual Studio.NET, and associated servers. Joe has also served time with eAngler.com, Arthur Andersen, Cap Gemini, EDS, and IBM in various capacities.

Jeff Barnes (Architecture: The Harmony of Mathematical Precision; http://blogs.msdn.com/jbarnes ) is the Microsoft Architect Evangelist for the Gulf States District where he engages with the local Architect community to help solve tough business problems with leading-edge technology. Jeff has been with Microsoft for over 10 years and has spent over 7 of those years as an architect in the Microsoft Consulting Services organization working with large enterprise customers throughout North America. He especially enjoys the freedom and flexibility that .NET brings to the table in order solve the next generation of tough technical challenges.

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032400629&culture=en-US

DotNetNuke 5 Module Development

Ken Tucker — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:54:51 GMT

Speaker: Stan Schultes http://www.vbnetexpert.com/

Topic: DotNetNuke 5 Module Development

When: Tuesday, January 6th @ 7:00-9:00 PM

Where: ABC Fine Wine & Spirits, Inc. Corporate Office

Address: 8989 South Orange Ave., Orlando, FL 32822

Description: Stan Schultes will begin with a quick technical overview of DotNetNuke, and a discussion of why you might build a custom DNN module. Demos will include how to install the DNN portal on a development machine, and how to install a custom module into the portal. Then we'll dive into setting up Visual Studio 2008 for module development and demonstrate how to install a module source package and run it in design mode. Finally, we'll walk through the process of developing a custom module using the sample module to provide details, and we'll see some development tips & tricks along the way. This is a 300-level session - some experience with DotNetNuke will be assumed.

URL: http://orlando.dotnetnukeug.net/WhatsNew/Events/tabid/91/ctl/Details/Mid/428/ItemID/16/Default.aspx?selecteddate=1/6/2009

Orlando DotNetNuke User Group presents Malware and how it affects you and your customers

Ken Tucker — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:59:38 GMT

Topic: Malware and how it affects you and your customers
Date: 12/09/2008
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: ABC Fine Wine & Spirits, Inc. Corporate Office
Address: 8989 South Orange Avenue, Orlando, FL 32822 (2 blocks south of Sand Lake Road)
Map Link: http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=28.437205~-81.366381&style=r&lvl=14&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&where1=8989%20S%20Orange%20Ave%2C%20Orlando%2C%20FL%2032824&encType=1
Speaker: Janie "Calamity Jane" Whitty (Microsoft MVP Consumer Security)
Description:
Microsoft MVP, Janie Whitty, aka Calamity Jane, will be speaking about Malware and how it affects you and your customers. Janie is best known by her username Calamity Jane in PC Security circles. She specializes in HijackThis logs analysis and malware removal/prevention and PC security as an Independent Consultant for Lavasoft (makers of Ad-Aware SE).
Event Information: http://orlando.dotnetnukeug.net/WhatsNew/Events/tabid/91/ctl/Details/Mid/428/ItemID/10/Default.aspx?selecteddate=12/9/2008
Event Registration: https://www.codezone.com/UGEventView.CodezoneCom?EventID=5450

The INETA Community Champion Award

Ken Tucker — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:34:59 GMT

INETA Rewards those Active in the User Group Community

An XBox or MSDN Subscription to the 10 Most Active Contributors in the User Group Community each quarter.

How? By doing what you are doing already, you stand to win:

a) Valuable Prizes: An MSDN Subscription. And, if you already have one, you can choose an XBox instead.

XBox
MSDN Professional Subscription

b) The Fame and Prestige of having an award to hang on your wall that shows that INETA recognizes your contributions to the User Group Community.

c) Official Recognition on the INETA Website for one year.

All of your peers will be able to see that you stand out above the crowd. If the opportunity presents itself for you to show your dedication to the User Group Community in a public way, there is no better way than to show off your name highlighted on the website of a highly respected organization like INETA.

d) A Badge for your website showing that you are a Community Champion.

When folks visit your website, blog or any other place where you publicly post your work, they will see that you are a Community Champion.

Oooohhhh. Recognition by INETA? Valuable Prizes? An award to hang on my wall? A Badge? How can I participate?

Well, I am glad that you asked.

INETA has long been known for it's support of User Groups and this year, there are a number of great new programs supporting the User Group Community. The Community Champs program is one of them. INETA wants to recognize individuals who are demonstrating their involvement in the User Group community. The program is aimed at rewarding those that are the most active with the prizes and award mentioned above. It is INETA's way of recognizing the ones that really bring the community together. So, in short, if you are the kind of person who helps to run user group meetings, codecamps, or helps out in any number of other ways, you should let INETA know the kind of activities that you are involved in. If you are very active, you may be recognized by INETA in a very public and spectacular way for the activities that you currently do to help the user group community.

INETA and Community-Credit are making it happen.

Community Credit has been helping to recognize fellow developers for the past number of years for their accomplishments and INETA has been the mainstay of User Groups for many years, so it is no surprise that the two would be working together to make this great program possible. Best of all, the contributions that you record will also count toward Community Credit prizes, so you may even have a chance to be rewarded with a Geeky, Community Credit prize as an added bonus.

How do I submit my contributions?

Visit the INETA website and go to the Champions section, sign in and let INETA know what you are doing by recording your contributions. The current quarterly period counts for contributions during period of June 30th, 2007 to June 30th, 2008. The final submissions can be made until July 14th. Keep in mind that the end of this current quarter is coming up pretty soon, so if you have been very active over the last year, be sure to enter them soon so that you don't miss this great opportunity.

What are the benefits of participating?

If you are an individual who is always contributing to the User Group Community, you do it because you like it. You don't do it because you expect to be rewarded. At the same time, if you just happen to be rewarded and recognized then that makes it that much better. Imagine playing on an XBox that you received as a thanks for all of your hard work. It makes the games just a little bit more fun. Using your MSDN subscription that you "earned" makes the tools just a little bit better and seeing the award hanging on your wall is a reminder to you and your colleagues just how committed you are.

Can anybody participate?

Unfortunately, the current period (being our first) is for participants in North America only.

Space Coast .Net Silverlight 2.0 Meeting

Ken Tucker — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:06:19 GMT

When: Wednesday May 21, 2008 @ 6:30 PM

Where: Space Coast Credit Union corp headquarters

Silverlight 2 includes a cross-platform, cross-browser version of the .NET Framework, and enables a rich .NET development platform that runs in the browser. Developers can write Silverlight applications using any .NET language (including VB, C#, JavaScript, IronPython and IronRuby). We will ship Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Studio tool support that enables great developer / designer workflow and integration when building Silverlight applications.

Jeff Barnes of Microsoft will be presenting

There will be pizza and magazines available at this meeting. There will be a raffle for a Office 2007 pro at the end of the meeting.

Get VS 2008 for Free

Ken Tucker — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:27:46 GMT

The Space Coast .Net User Group will be having VS 2008 install fest on Dec 18, 2007 @ 6:30PM

Bring your laptop to the meeting room at Charlie and Jakes and the great Joe Healy will allow you to install a copy of Visual Studio 2008 professional for free. While Visual Studio 2008 is installing buy yourself something to eat or drink and have some fun.

** Visual Studio 2008 must be installed at the meeting **
** Pease uninstall any Orcas or VS 2008 betas before the meeting **

There are a limited number of copies of VS 2008 available

Don't live in Brevard County Florida but still want a free copy of VS 2008 pro check out Tim Heuer's Blog to see if there is a install fest near you.

http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2007/11/27/get-visual-studio-2008-professional-for-free-installfest.aspx

Russ Fustinos Tool Shed Tour

Ken Tucker — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:38:48 GMT

Russ Fusino's Tool Shed tour will be making a stop at the Space Coast .Net User Group

When: October 3, 2007 @ 3:00 PM

Where: Eau Gallie Public Library

It's All About The Tools – (It’s AATT! ) Episode One!

When I was a youth, watching my Dad tune up our car… there was a spark plug way in the back and it was really tough to get at using a traditional socket wrench. Then he pulled out this special tool that had a bend in it for just such a situation. My Dad said… “When you have the right tool for the job, it makes it easy… without the right tool you will struggle and struggle”. How true is that? Sometimes as a developer we struggle, needlessly… if we only knew there was a tool that did a certain function. Many times I will see a tool and say “if I had only know about that I would have been done so much quicker”. Many times in an MSDN Event I will show a tool as part of a larger presentation topic and some folks will come up to me afterwards and say that was the best part because that tool solves a specific problem they had.
Did you ever feel inundated with developer tools? Did you ever feel you are missing something that could make your life easier as a developer and as a power user? There are so many tools available to choose from and it keeps getting tougher to keep up with. Tool familiarity continues to be one of the top developers challenges. This series of seminars is all about tools for developers, by developers.
Welcome to this new, fresh and original ground breaking MSDN seminar series from Russ’ Tool Shed called … It’s All About The Tools. This is the first installment of many more to come. This session is tech talk about tools for developers. Join Microsoft Florida Developer Evangelist Russ Fustino for his take on what's hot in the developer's toolbox. There's something here for everyone, from beginners to experts. Oh, by the way, you might want to put your hard hat on for this one!
Don’t miss this event. It’s where It’s AATT! J In this first session you will see demonstrations the following tools and a few more surprises… Fiddler Web Stress Tool IE Developer Toolbar Visual Studio IDE tools
•          code convertors
•          obfuscator
•          snippit manager (and the snippet tool in vista as a bonus)
•          toolbox scratch pad
•          Refactor
Visual Studio Express tool’s
Visual Web Developer Express:
•          Web Administrator
•          Membership and personalization
Visual Express C#
•          XNA Express
Live Services
•          Spaces
•          Live Writer
•          MSDN article on search provider (2007.08)
Silverlight 1.0/1.1 XAML Designer (Expression Blend) Community Tool Web Site Review and top downloaded SDK’s
•          GotDotNet: http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/ide/
•          MSDN Dev Center: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/powertoys/
•          CodePlex home: http://www.codeplex.com/Default.aspx
•          Download center and more!

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July Space Coast .Net Meeting

Ken Tucker — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:37:10 GMT

July Space Coast .Net Meeting

When: July 18 @ 6:30 PM

Where: Space Coast Credit Union Corp headquarters

Connecting Applications with WCF

Most applications of any scale need to make remote calls. Whether you need to call across processes from your smart client to a web service, from your web server to your application server, or from one client to another in a peer to peer fashion, WCF supports any kind of remote messaging or communications scenario. It doesn’t just stop at remote calls either, but also supports multiple forms of security, distributed transactions, queuing, concurrency, callbacks and many other things that are needed in full blown enterprise scale Service Oriented Architecture applications. This talk will show you the basics of using WCF to connect applications. You will learn what WCF is all about, how it relates to other remoting technologies, how to create a service, how to connect a client, and will expose you to the other many facets of WCF.

Bio:

Brian Noyes is a software architect with IDesign Inc (www.idesign.net), the Microsoft Regional Director for the Mid-Atlantic Region, a Solution Architect MVP, writer, speaker, and trainer. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences worldwide including Microsoft TechEd US, Europe, and Malaysia, DevConnections, DevTeach, SDC Netherlands, .NET Days Denmark, and others. His last book, Data Binding in Windows Forms 2.0, came out in January 2006, and his latest book Smart Client Deployment with ClickOnce hit the shelves in January 2007. Brian also recently completed a LiveLessons training DVD named Developing Applications with Windows Workflow Foundation that will be out in the April 2007 timeframe. Brian got started programming as a hobby while flying F-14 Tomcat’s in the Navy, graduating from both TopGun and U.S. Naval Test Pilot School. He later turned his love of programming into his current career.

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ScottGu at Space Coast .Net

Ken Tucker — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:31:15 GMT

ScottGu at Space Coast .Net

Recently we had Scott Guthrie who works for Microsoft stop by and present at our meeting while he was in town for DevConnections . Scott runs the teams that build the .NET Common anguage Runtime (CLR), .NET Compact Framework, ASP.NET /Atlas, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation (aka "Avalon") , IIS 7.0, Commerce Server, Visual Web Developer, and Visual Studio Tools for Avalon (aka "Cider").

Scott did a really awsome 2 hour presentation. He started off showing the new CSS features of Visual Studio Orcas. Then he moved on to LINQ and showed some really useful examples. Then he moved on to WPF and did a demo on Expression blend. Finally he moved on to IIS 7 and showed how to configure the website settings in a config file.

Scott is a great presenter. I was really impressed with how much he was able to cover. I was also impressed with how stable Visual Studio Orcas was in this early CTP.

Link to Scott Guthries slides